Lumilens, which is building data center optical-interconnection tech to replace wires with light, raised $700M at a $5.5B valuation, for $900M in total funding (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/startup-raises-700-million-to-replace-data-center-wires-with-light-adc74358?st=CpfW3u&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260806/i18.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260806/p18#a260806p18" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Anissa Gardizy / <a href="https://www.wsj.com/">Wall Street Journal</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/startup-raises-700-million-to-replace-data-center-wires-with-light-adc74358?st=CpfW3u&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">Lumilens, which is building data center optical-interconnection tech to replace wires with light, raised $700M at a $5.5B valuation, for $900M in total funding</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Lumilens, which makes optical gear to speed up data flowing between AI servers, is valued at $5.5 billion in new funding</p>